Congratulations Riley!

The random # generator (made in a hipster garage in Seattle) has spoken: “Riley!” Congrats to Riley, Chet’s April Friend of the month, who will be in the special place on the right until May. As soon as we get a mailing address for Riley’s human companion (send to spence.quinn@gmail.com), a signed (and paw-printed!) copy of The Sound and the Furry will be winging its way.

Next month this could be you! Just send a photo into the gallery, as Lucy Lou & Darah Thea from Canada; Ginger; Trixie & Chico; Xena; leisurely dude; and Lucy Ball did today. It’s easy! It’s fun! No downside! Huge payoff!

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Welcome and Congratulations, Riley. I hope you’ll always be as comfortable as you look to be in your picture.
Welcome, also, to April. I hope that this month will bring Spring and be a good month for all of us.

Good morning, everyone! Went to appointment this A.M. before OFA “awakened” and on retrurn, the blog wasn’t refreshing for an hour…thought we were lost
Glad all are here. Welcome Riley! Glad MPM got home…to a week of rain.
Have a Technicolor Tuesday

When I came back from the Massachusetts trip, I was in trouble when I opened my suitcase the next day. All of my clothes had the smell of Callie, Tupper, Gillie, Basil and Sage. Last night I got into trouble right away. Loulou was sniffing me from head to toe as soon as I arrived and we got the greetings over with. Then I realized it wasn’t just Sadie’s smell, that the pants I was wearing were the same ones that I wore to visit Snowhook kennels. Once again I had a lot of ‘splainin’ to do.

sigh – Corgi can be a facebookie winner, but alas, not so for the blog.

The Storyteller went to try a tai chi class this morning. Can’t wait to hear what he thinks.

MPM – we can just imagine LouLou sniffing, sniffing, sniffing and then walking away in high dudgeon, tail curled with an aloof attitude. That’s what we do to Mama after she visits other dogs. Well, except for the tail curling part….Corgis – you know.

Snorkel!…My friend just sent me a text on my little Go-Phone…heh!…She says the hot-shot went outside for a break and she took the opportunity to switch the controls on his mouse…chorkel!…When he comes in another gal is going to ask him to show her something on his oomputer…heh!heh!…

A catty, the librarian turned me on to this free printables website. I haven’t received anything in the two weeks I have been on it that I couldn’t live without until I came to this shopping list. It has lists for all sorts of grocery shopping problems and I am attaching this link for gluten free shopping for Mollypop’s Mom to look at.

Y’all are cracking us up! Mom doesn’t allow pranks because she says middle school students didn’t know when to quit and it would de-evolve into bullying. She’s jus a poopy old stick in the mud.
OH: how do chickens, other than Fern the wonder Chick, do in Alaska?

If you love flowers, flutterbies, birds and some simple ideas (we won’t talk about tough ones), the Birds & Blooms magazine has tons of good ideas for many climate zones!
The April/May edition has Mr. Cardinal on the front.

The instructions say to fill the ‘feeder’ to the top of the plastic and place in the sun. It says to grease the stick with petroleum jelly or Pam to discourage ants from feeding. Clean solution every 2 days to prevent bacteria. Clean with hot water only, no soap.

Stover, more of a rust color. Our nuthatches and gnatcatchers are here. Hummer food went out this A.M. Mom is making flutterby and oriel goodies this afternoon. We were told to lump it until tomorrow in the treaties, These other guys have been traveling.

Our hummingbird phone alarm just went off, right at the stroke of April 1. We watched Mom make the mix. She usually uses raw sugar, because that is all we have here. But she managed to find a container of old, very hard white stuff. She used that to please Staff. Now she is outside, calling “Tinkerbell”. Sheesh.

Difficult! Impossible! How do you decide who is more beautiful between MPM and our favorite Hobbit? You can’t. It’s like deciding who of us Thieves is better looking. We now understand why Wose couldn’t decide.

We want all youse to know how grateful we are that many of you traveled north to Alaska in person and in spirit to visit the kennel. We are so honored and grateful it makes our tails wag without our permission.

Staff, We are thinking that here in northern IL. it might be closer to May 1st before we put out the hummer feeders. Is this correct? We are looking to you as the pro on this subject.

First full day at work for Barb. It went well, but she is not used to being gone all day, from 8:30 to 4:30. And I am not used to having to wait all day to go outside! Yikes! I guess I can handle this two times a week. Lucy did OK too, but she was Aaarrroooing up a storm when Barb got home.

I was a prisoner in the basket of the sled. AJ gave instructions that if the sled tips over be sure to tuck your head and arms and be careful you don’t get sliced by the snow hook – and the sled kept tipping.

North Dakota rarely gets red breasted nuthatches. I see the white breasted ones all summer. I had a red breasted one in my yard once, I remember, but only once that I can recall. I reported it to the ND rare bird hotline because of it’s rarity here.

Yes the photo of me at the table showed me drinking wine and having a fun time! MPM selected the perfect light red wine but talked so much about the Cahoors wine that I will be going to a wine store soon and seeing if I can buy some bottles.

One thing MPM might not have been aware of during the sled dog ride….AJ was standing on the brake with one leg the whole time. The brake scraps off the top layer of snow which was flying out behind AJ and hitting me (the first outing had me on the back runners). I was turning into a snowman during the ride and had to pound a layer of snow off me when we returned to the kennel. I had expected MPM to be taken for a ride but not me so I wasn’t wearing my snowsuit, just denim slacks. Heh.

Wild ride!
I can vouch for Mollypop’s Mom. The same instructions were given to us: If the sled tips cover your head in case the snowhook comes at you. Yeeks! And 5 or 6 miles an hour seems mighty fast.

Rio: when you ride in the sled basket, you are very close to the ground so feel every bump and slant of the trail. MPM was sitting on a cushion but there was just a wooden horizontal slat across the back. AJ gave her a Snowhook Patch which was well-earned and will look lovely on her coat.

Patched!…I thought those sleds had big heavy cushions in them, like my warm soft bed does…sniff!….No one let me ride in the sled when I was visiting so I cannot comment on the thrill of the ride…heh!heh!

I’m sorry you didn’t have a better experience. When I’m giving a ride to someone I take into account all aspects of their safety and prepare the guest for the worst… And then we go have a great experience. We’ll just have to go again.

It could have been worse. We could have been traveling down the gorge. Jason Mackey tod me his GPS read 31 mph when we were going down it.

Sled-rider!….My friend can’t help thinking this would be a very fun thing to do especially with AJ the Giant in control…snort!…I would trust him with my flat-pug-head-life no doubt about it. He is no Amateur by golly…chuffle!

I can vouch for AJ: instructions were given for the worse but we were in great hands. I had been in a dog sled years ago so knew what to expect. I think it is more intense for first timers.

Another story. When we got back to the kennel and AJ & I were going to head out again, Rebecca suggested that I ride in front so I could see something. She reminded AJ how tall he was and that I couldn’t see around him and so would just be staring at his backside the whole ride . She suggested that I would be tired of the view. I assured her that it wasn’t a problem.

Mom was not scared one little bit in AJ’s sled, until Pop flipped it over. She does wish she would have gotten to ride on the runners a bit. She was nervous about that, but would have done it. Unfortunately, she never got the opportunity. Why? Probably because AJ was afraid she would do worse than Pop. But we know she has better balance. It is Pop who comes off horses. Heh!

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